Agnes Scott provides the perfect blend of athletics and academics. We're looking for students who work hard and don't make excuses; students who will be great ambassadors for Agnes Scott. Do you have what it takes to be on our team? GO SCOTTIES!

Academic Degrees

B.A., Williams College M.H.S., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Ph.D., Emory University

Teaching and Scholarly Interests

Professor Patterson is a global health practitioner with experience in the development, implementation and evaluation of community- and health-facility-based infectious disease and child health programs in Africa and with a particular focus on multi-level determinants of heath behaviors. She is also a health communications specialist with experience studying, developing, and implementing malaria behavior change communication activities, drawing on theory and methods from the social-behavioral sciences, epidemiology, media studies, health systems, education, cultural anthropology, and linguistics.

Her research interests include: culturally-specific health communication strategies and multi-level interventions to encourage recommended health behaviors, empower patients and caretakers and improve patient-provider communication; production, reception, re-circulation and effects (intended and unintended) of health communications and health interventions; health worker performance, decision-making processes, and the behavioral economics of non-adherence to recommended practice; relationships between global-level health policy and discourse, and everyday practice at the national, health facility and community levels; language, gender, culture, and power in interactions between stakeholders at different levels of health systems; global malaria elimination and eradication efforts (past and present); community-based and community-directed interventions.